Test 9 · ★★ · How stars live

If the Sun gets about 10% brighter every billion years, how will the Earth change over that time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun, Earth · What happens: get about, change

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 18 «How stars live» of the space course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 gets	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 10	advmod
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 %	nummod
7	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	8 brighter	obl:unmarked
8	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 gets	xcomp
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 years	det
10	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gets	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 change	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 change	advmod
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 change	aux
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Earth	det
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 change	nsubj
17	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gets	conj
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 change	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get about	present	the Sun				year	bright property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	change	future	the Earth				time		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

It will not change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 change	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	future	It			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It will slowly freeze over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 freeze	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 freeze	advmod
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 freeze	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze over	future	It					over, slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It will slowly get warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	It					slowly, warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It will move closer to Mars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 move	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 move	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Mars	case
6	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	future	It		Mars			close property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mars=Result

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